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20th Nov 2020, 3:56 PM
	23skidoo Member since Jul 2014 4061 Points	xiphophilos wrote: ... I imagine it to be the kind of book a gentleman might have carried along in his vest pocket while traveling. That's what I love about old books - even if you don't know what it is, they still have a history, just by virtue of having survived this long. My Night-Thoughts book had to have travelled from the UK to Canada at some point - but it was printed nearly three quarters of a century before Canada became a formal country, and it was printed at a time when books were still considered luxury items for the upper class. So was my copy owned initially by some Lord or Lady such-and-such? If only books could talk. Even if it sat on a bookshelf for 150 years, a lot of stuff would have happened in front of that bookshelf.

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